Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

[Clint Redwood]

Hi Geert,

 
Thanks for your detailed reply. I've hacked the us report in order to do what I need in the short term, and will fix the localisations for it going forward. It seems that the whole process may not work quite as I'd hoped anyway, as I suspect I need to be able to associate a single account to more than one tax code - at the moment, it's set up for many accounts to one line, but I think may I need many to many, since in some cases the same information appears more than once on the UK tax forms. I'll see how well I can do it as it is, and then decide if it's worth fixing the de_DE hack and generalising it.

 
It's just such a shame for all the international users not to have the capability of using this faclilty, and I'm sure keeps people on proporiety alternatives.


Yours,

Clint Redwood 

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-----Original message-----
From:Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
Sent:Tue 20-05-2014 15:54
Subject:Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK
To:gnucash-devel at gnucash.org; 
CC:John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>; Clint Redwood <clint at screwtape.co.uk>; 
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:45:38 John Ralls wrote:
> On 19 May 2014, at 23:37, Clint Redwood <clint at screwtape.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > Thanks for the reply. I'd heard that before, and I didn't expect to
> > be able to use the export, but the accompanying report with the tax
> > form lines accumulating related accounts, rather than having to use
> > a spreadsheet each year and remember which accounts added up to
> > what.
> > 
> > There is code in the GnuCash release for a German localisation of
> > the report, so I naively assumed I could create a GB localisation
> > too. However, it is ignoring my localisation attempt.
> > 
> > I've created -en_GB versions of all the files localised as -de_DE
> > and it just loads the us version.
> > 
> > I'd be surprised if a stable release of gnucash ships with code that
> > isn't usable so I'm just trying to figure out why my localisation
> > for en_GB is ignored.

Unfortunately the locale specific tax reports we added via a hack. And 
the code that should load these reports explicitly checks if the locale 
is de_DE. If not it will go for the US tax report. This filtering is 
done in src/tax/us/gncmod-tax-us.c if I remember correctly.

You may be able to fix this by special casing en_GB as well, though I'd 
rather see this mess cleaned up properly by storing locale dependent tax 
related stuff in separate directories/files per locale/country and load 
the relevant bits whenever the right locale is active.

That may be more than you intended to do here though :(

Geert